home cooked dinners by the season

Dungeness Crab Angel Hair Pasta

I think this is the simplest recipe I’ve posted. Dungeness crab inspires this. So good on its own, it needs very little to enhance its sweet flavor and delicate texture. Just a little garlic carefully cooked over low heat to release its flavor then marinated briefly with ripe sweet tomatoes and fragrant basil. All tossed together in a web of fine strands of angel hair pasta this is summer cooking at its finest.

Heat butter and olive oil over low heat in skillet; add garlic and cook just to soften and release flavor (do not brown) about 1 minute. Remove from heat and add tomatoes and basil. Allow sitting 30 minutes to blend flavors.

Cook pasta according to package directions; drain.

While pasta is cooking, heat the tomato mixture over low to medium heat; add crab and cook just to heat through, about 2-3 minutes then remove from heat. Add cooked pasta to tomato and crab mixture and toss to evenly mix; season with salt and pepper. Toss with Parmesan Cheese.